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dumbass attack

/duhm'as *-tak'/ [Purdue] n. Notional cause of a
novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while
running as root under UNIX, e.g., typing `rm -r *' or
`mkfs' on a mounted file system. Compare adger.